Wheel-guard.



A. W. CANTLON. ,WHEEL cum).

APPLICATION FIJLIED 'APR.4. 191's. 1,295,692. Patented Feb.25,191-9 rails,

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Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed April 4, 1918. Serial 0. 226,706.

To all whom may concern.

Be it known that I, ADAM W. Cannon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VJhesl-Guards; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled the art towvhich it appertains to make and use the same.

This invent-ion is an improved guard for use on the trucks of railway cars in front of a wheel to clear obstructing objects from the rails in advance of the. wheels and hence prevent derailing but more especially adapted for use in saving life or injury to persons,

especially railway operators whom the eventv they should fall. between the cars might otherwise be caught under the car wheels and killed or injured.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this kind which is arranged in front of scar wheel and serves to pick up a. person who might fallout-he rail and shove him to one side of the rail or the other, rhus preventing-him from being run over by the wheel and also giving him an opportunity to grab or catch hold "of the guard and pull himself out of the way or assist him in lying down between the track as the case may he, and thereby prevent or greatly diminish the liability of in jury to railroad employees who in operating the train may fall between the cars and on the rraok. a

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying .drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of'a portion of a railway car provided with a wheel guard constructed in accordance with my in-:

vention.

Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view. of the wheel guard.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the slipper.

In the embodimenc of my invention I pro? vide a wheel guard 1 which has a head 2 at its upper end adapted to be bolted to the under sides of a car body as indicated in Fig. 1', so that the car body and arranged a preferred guard will be cans-,1 to

in front of, but near one of the wheels. That portion of the guard which is opposite the wheel is curved as at 3 concentrically with the wheel and -so that the guard is prevented from coming in contact with the wheel. The lower portion of the guard is extended forwardly and inclined down wardly as at d and is provided in its under side with a slot 5.

At the lower end oft-he guard is a slipper or fender 6 which has at its frontend a head 7 the width of which corresponds approximately with that of a railway track rail, the said head having a rounded lower side 8. On the rear side of the head, at, the center, is a rearwardly extending hurved arm which is arranged in the slot and is pivotally mounted on a pin. 10 which passes through an opening 11 at a suitable distance in rear of the head. The length of the arm in rear of the pivot 10 is such as to cause the arm "to nearly counterbalance the head which is arranged in front of the guard arm d as shown.

The length of the guard is such as to cause the head of the slipper to travel at a slight distance above the track rail. In the eventof a loose jointin the track and one end of a track rail moving vertically when the car passes over the joint, the slip-' per being pivotally mounted and balanced wvill move upwardly at. the head so that the head of the slipper will ride freely over the Patented Feb. 1919.

end of the rail and without injury to the slipper or the guard. After passing the loose joint the head will then descend and reassume its normal position a slight dis tance above the rail, the arm 9 bearing against the upper side of the slot 5 as indicated in Fig. 2-.

Should a person fall on the track ahead of the wheel. he will be picked up by the guard and the slipper given a good oppor- \tunity to grasp the guard and pull himself out of the way of the wheel or will be shoved toone side or the other of the rail and hence saved from being; run over by the wheel.

While I have herein shown and described form of my invention 1 would have it understood that changes may be .made 'in the form,proporti0n and construction of the several parts without departing from the spirit. of the invention and with-in the scope of the appended claims.

Having this described my invention, I claim v 1. A wheel guard for railway Wheels comprising, alongitudinally curved guard adapted for attachment at its upper end'to the frame of a car, said guard having its lower end extending outwardly and provided with a longitudinal slot; a slipper pivotally secured to the lower portion of the guard and disposed within said slot, said slipper having its forward end enlarged; and a countenhalancing arm extending rearwardly of the slipper.

2. A guard for rallway wheels comprising, a guard adapted to be arranged forwardly of a wheel, said guard having a longitudinal slot in its lower end thereof; a slipper pivotally secured to the lower portion of the guard and disposed within said slot, said slipper having its forward end enlarged; and means to retain the enlarged head slightly above the rail.

A guard for railway wheels comprising, a longitudinally curved guard adapted for attachment at its upper end to the frame of a car; a slipper pivotally secured to the lower portion of the guard, said slipper having its forward end enlarged; and a counterbalancing arm extending rearwardly from the slipper and adapted to maintain the forward end of the slipper a slight distance above the rail.

' In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

' ADAM W. CA NTLON. Witnesses V CLAYTON A. MQCLEARY, HARRY MCDONALD. 

